Today it’s three, three, three posts in one: ART I’m sitting in my bedroom, meditating. Scott is on Jonah duty. It’s morning, so that involves light surveillance while making coffee, breakfast. I hear a prolonged series of thudding, scratching noises…
Category: sleep
cheetah vs. leopard, and painting
There are many things I am going to learn because I am a parent. Some will be related to parenting. Some will give me insight into myself as a person. Some will force me to grow. Some will be things…
improvements
Just a note to check in and let anyone who is still following our sleep travails know that the latest technique change is working. At the end of our newly refined routine, he’s down to about 45 seconds of Mommy…
crying
Add crying to our bedtime routine. Here we are, yet again. As of last night, daddy does bath, potty, teeth, books and bottles, and another potty. Then at 6:30-ish Jonah gets into the crib. “Lay DOW-UNN,” he says — no…
memory, ukulele
So this is how they get you. You buy your kid a ukulele (or your mother-in-law does, but how could she not — what with how cute he looked playing it in the store, how happy he was that it…
pancakes, sleep, axes
Mother’s Day! I asked Scott for Dutch Baby pancakes. I was having a craving, and I found this recipe up on the internet and it looked easy enough (a second site recommended doubling the butter, which I recommended to him.…
taking it in the tooth (two steps forward, one back)
Jonah was up last night from 2am to 4am. In his entire life, I don’t think we’ve ever had a night like that. Maybe one. We’ve had nights full of night wakings, back in the day, but not this. Not…
bedtime (un)routine, with zoo animals
The bedtime routine continues to take on complex variations, additions, flourishes. Tonight the boy required that he be covered in two pillows, one on each side of him, nearly on top of him, while he lay on top of me,…